Paper Trails

Mixed Media Work with Paper by Jascha Owens

June 4th - 24th, 2010

Thanks to DJ’s Asher Love-Rdi & Hungry Freaks and Sami Kushnick for playing at the opening! What fun!

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Strange Attractor

I’m a transient Polluted by ideas of my heroic identity. My ego, ensnared by insignificant insights, lumbers forward And during our ignorant stupor The chilled breath of a freshly thawed spring enslaves us Living on the campfire’s edge I cry and yell and beat my drum “Look at that bee” I pronounce and with a childish guise I poke its needled tip

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About the Show

This group of works reflects conversations between explorations of mine in different mediums, with specific emphasis on collage, drawing, and painting. The most current pieces inherently respond to the constraints of collage, though they are not bound to its physical limitations. It is their lineage rather, that confines them to the methodology of marking with assembled parts.

My work revolves around identity in a relativistic manner. We are always aware of who we are, though this mental image changes constantly. We rely on friends and events, to help uncover a perceived outward ego yielding a gauge that determines our similarities and differences. Yet this process can be scaled and must be for survival in the complex networks of our world. I seek, like everyone, entanglements with the web around me that draw an excited response from my emotional core and further clarify the boundaries of my identity.

Jascha Owens, May 2010

Selected Pieces

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FatherUnit_01	Unit_00	MotherUnit_02	Strange Attractor
Dream Odyssey	Our Seed	Hollywood